In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

His vision is to come down and be with us in a beautiful garden.

The first two people reject God’s vision and are escorted from the garden.

Their decision introduces sin into the human race and keeps us from community with God.

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

At this moment God gives a promise and launches a plan to get us back.

So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

The rest of the Bible is God’s story of how he kept that promise and made it possible for us to enter a loving relationship with Him.